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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
Sounds like the rule of thumb will likely be along the lines of:
American = automatic only (95% of the time)
Anyone else - high chance of manual proficiency
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95% seems way too high. I live in an urban area of the US and about 25% of the drivers I know have driven stick at one point in their life. It would of course decrease as you skew younger and increase as you skew rural.
If you put me behind a stick in a crisis the car would die on me a few times, but after an hour of driving I am sure it would seem like second nature again.
Currently car manufacturers make between 2-10% of their cars with a manual transmission. During the T2k time line it would have been a bit higher.